Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after excavators began blasting into the ground to prepare the way for construction of a new 28-story bank building in downtown Nashville two years ago, a sharp-eyed workman spotted something strange in the limestone debris-an ivory-colored, banana-shaped object that looked like a miniature elephant tusk. Bank officials, hearing of the odd discovery, quickly called in an amateur archaeologist, Robert Ferguson, who immediately recognized the find. It was a fossilized fang from a saber-toothed tiger, an extinct, ferocious-looking creature that once stalked wide areas of the Americas...
...trowels. But the city is considerably excited by its tiger in the bank (which lies only five blocks from the Grand Ole Opry House). Spores, for one, is so sure that there may be other tiger and human remains about that he has taken to prowling construction sites in downtown Nashville in hopes of finding more fossil beds. The First American National Bank, too, is cashing in on the find ("the bones of an unsuccessful borrower," goes a local joke). At the formal opening of the new bank building this month, some of the bones will go on public display...
...decades of hard work have transformed the nation of 32 million into one of Asia's most rapidly advancing industrial societies. In Seoul, now bursting with more than 6,000,000 inhabitants, buildings rising to 30 stories have replaced the one-and two-story shops in the downtown district. Construction on the country's first subway nears completion. New hotels and proliferating offices of foreign firms have begun to give the capital a cosmopolitan accent. Thousands of nightclubs, cabarets, beer halls and bars prosper, as do the traditional kisaeng houses where hostesses entertain tired businessmen...
...process he has become a multimillionaire. Once a part-time usher in a local moviehouse, he designed and was an initial owner of the $200 million Peachtree Center complex of office buildings, shops, restaurants and hotels, including the spectacular Hyatt Regency Atlanta, that has revived the city's downtown...
Bordersville is the most "undeveloped" Houston suburb. Mostly black with a few poor white families, it is a ramshackle collection of old wooden cottages that lies in the shadow of Houston's brand new $110 million inter-continental airport. Bordersville, which is about 15 miles from downtown Houston, was annexed by the city several years ago along with the land for the airport. But although the airport has everything from hot and cold running water to hot and cold running scotch, Bordersville has no running water, no sewers, and no paved roads...